HELP DH wants me to rehome the chooks!

[redhen]

Not sure what the problem is..just tell him NO! See...its simple!

Go try it..go on now......

 

[specklesmom]

So sorry about your chicken; Red Tailed hawks can be really brazen. I hope your husband changes his mind when he understands how much the chicks mean to you. Hope you have a way to avoid more losses to the hawks.

 

[usschicago1]

Stick up for yourself!

 

[speckledhen]

I think I'd be asking what is he going to give up that he loves.

Hey, fair's fair, right?

 

[Dixiedoodle]

My husband might THINK it but he would NEVER say it! LOL I think he got the message, when he said "I think I am allergic to dogs" and I said " Doodle (my old, fat, lovable Dachshund), tell daddy bye, cause he might have to leave"! LOL IF it isn't a burden on his time or $$ why should he care if you have them. I will admit, my dh does get very upset, if I am hurting or upset.. It's his way of trying to protecting me.. I suggest talking to him about how much they mean to you!

 

[FortWorthChicks]

I say tell em your working on it... and when/if he asks again tell him oh it had slipped your mind and you will get back on that right away.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

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I absolutely agree with this 100%! My DH plays pool. He lives, eats and breaths pool. My coop is attached to his shop where he has a rather expensive "covered" pool table. One night I didn't get the door to the coop latched good and some of the chickens came out and shot a game. One of them must have been a sore loser because it left a big old poo right in the middle of the "COVERED" table. You can only guess where this is going....there was the argument over my *%$( chickens and then demands that I do something about my (T^(((&&^( chickens. It all ended when I told him that in order for me to give up my chickens, he had to give up his two nights of pool league that he plays a week.

He got over it.

 

[Elite Silkies]

You guys are cracking me up with all the funny stories. I loved the one about Doodle and the one about the chicks playing pool.

 

[debtrag]

I went to bat for my game roo last night that has taken up roosting in the garage (with a cardboard box under his roost) since the weather/temp has been so frigid lately. I think he suffered a little frost bite on his feet. DH and I went at it very hard. He wanted to kill him (for being "in the house"), I told him to get out and leave my rooster alone.

He did and got so drunk he didn't get out of bed until the 1 yr old calf walked over the electic fence at 11:00 this morning and was in the backyard, I hollered in the back door that he was running loose. It was the greatest payback I have ever seen. Especially when the calf got out the second time and it took him 45 minutes to persuade him to walk back over the electic wire. You don't try to force a 500lb calf back in the fence area unless you want to go skiing by hanging onto the lead around his neck.

Wish I had a video on this one, each time he got close to the pasture he would go down on his knees and rub his head in the snow. Oh it was great.

BTW, the drift has been over the fence for 2 weeks and we have a tractor with a grader box that can move snow. Guess it was time for the calf to follow the owners trail.

 

[Tala]

So basically, I'm reading from the OP that the hubby is upset about all the DRAMA and he sees the chickens as the source of it. He wants you to be calm and to him that means no chickens.
Guys are SO simple minded sometimes!!!! - by that I mean he's thinking about "this moment only"
----right now it would be calmer if we didn't have these #$%^! birds....get rid of em!----- Right now he's not thinking about fun stuff like fuzzy chicks, relaxing chicken TV, or fresh eggs. He's only worried about RIGHT NOW.

He'll just have to get over his short sighted-ness.

Else you'll just have to make the long term a heckofa-lot worse than whatever is going on right now!!!